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"POTTER!" I yelled for James Potter! Potter did the stupidest thing ever. He had the nerve to send me a dozen roses and a note that said:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Lily is a red head

Will you go out with

Me, Evans?

Potter came around the corner with his glasses askew over his hazel eyes with his ebony hair disheveled. "What's wrong, Evans? Oh, and what is the answer to my question?" he asked with mock concern.

"I WOULDN'T GO OUT WITH YOU, POTTER, IF MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT! And what that is wrong is the fact that you exist! Sound familiar??" I yelled at him.

"No luck, Prongs," said ebony haired Sirius Black, his gray eyes full of amusement.

"I know, Padfoot, but, Lily, please consider this – Will you go with me to the end of the year ball?" James, I mean, Potter, asked me.

"No, James, I will not go with you."

"You called me 'James'!"

"No I called you 'Potter'!"

"No, you perfectly called Prongs 'James', Lils," interjected mousey colored hair Remus Lupin.

"Thank you, Moony," Potter said. "Now, Lily, will you go out with me?"

"Oh my god, NO! I WILL NEVER GO OUT WITH YOU! EVEN IF YOU WERE THE LAST PERSON ON EARTH!" I screamed at him.

I ran to the Gryffindor common room and up the dormitory steps. I had just called Potter "James"! What had I done? Was I starting to like James? Or was I?

"Hey, Lily," my brown haired friend, Mary McKinnon said as she came into the dormitory, closely followed by my blonde hair friend, Lizzie Brown.

"What's wrong, Lils?" Lizzie asked.

I had tears coming down my face. "I think I might like James." I squeaked out as I pulled my read hair into a pony tail.

"Honey, that isn't a surprise. You have been staring at him more and yelling at him less. On the bright side, everyone knew this day would come." I looked up and there was Alice Prewett staring at me. She was my bestest friend ever, we went to school together when we were little.

"But, Alice, I am supposed to HATE him! I can't like him…."

"Your only choice is Snivilly."

"I don't like Sn-Severus. Actually I hate him." In our fifth year he called me a….. Mudblood.

"Lily, just go out with him once and then you decide if you like James or not. Oh, and are you coming to watch your favorite chaser and seeker practice?" Lizzie stated as she went down the steps to the common room. Lizzie is the Gryffindor seeker while our bespeckled friend was a chaser. I followed her down the steps and out onto the Quidditch field. I took a seat in the stands and watched the team come out onto the pitch.

The practice was really good. Lizzie knocked James off his broom and scared him half to death. Alice, Mary, and I went to cracking up at him. He looked up at us. I felt my face going beet red. I bet it really clashes with my hair. James smiled and flew up at us and yelled, "Evans, why is your face red? Is it because of me?" I blushed a deeper shade of red as my bespeckled friend flew away.

Sirius and Remus showed up and we waved at them and they waved at us and walked out to talk to James. What ever they said it looked like it gave him a serious blow (no pun intended). His face had a pained and worried expression. I ran down to the field to see what was wrong. Alice and Mary right behind me the whole way.

"James, what is it?" Alice asked.

"Lily, here's you a letter." Remus said.

"Here you go, Lils." Sirius said.

I opened it:

Dear Lily,

I am so sorry but someone of your kind has murdered our parents. Vernon and I will not take care of you so you will have to stay with someone else this summer. If you have to just stay at that freak school.

Sincerely,

Petunia Dursley

I went to crying right in front of everyone. Someone had murdered my parents. Only one type of person would kill them – Death Eaters. Tuney didn't care if that I was alright and needed anyone. She didn't love me anymore. Life just isn't fair anymore. I really wanted to be with my friends but I also wanted to be alone all at the same time. Everyone was looking at me while Remus read the letter aloud. I was so scared. If they killed my parents then they will eventually try to get me. As this realization hit me I went to crying harder. When Remus was done I felt someone's arms around me. I looked up into the most beautiful hazel eyes.

"Everything will be okay, Lils." He reassured me as he led me back up to the Castle. I couldn't stop crying. I finally made him stop and sat down on the entrance steps. I buried my face in my hands and sobbed. I heard foot steps coming but I knew that it was my friends and the Quidditch team. I sat there and cried my heart out for who knew how long. James kept his arms around me the whole time. I was thankful when he told everyone to leave. They kept saying "I'm sorry" but they didn't know how I felt. When I was finally done crying it was really dark outside.

"James, what time is it? How long have I been crying? Did it all really happen?" I kept muttering these questions over and over. I was hoping that the last one was no.

"Lily, I'm so sorry. My dad past away a year ago and it hurt me really bad. At least you have the memories of them to keep you okay. I'm sorry I don't know the time but you probably need to go and talk to Dumbledore. If you want I'll go with you to talk to him."

I didn't know about his dad. I felt so bad for yelling at him now.

"James, if you don't want to you don't have to come with me. I'll be fine by myself."

I started to walk away to show that I would be fine but I felt his hand in mine as soon as I started walking. I smiled and blushed at the touch. When I looked at him he smiled. I finally saw the real James Potter and he saw the real me not the one who had her guard up all the time but the real one. When this realization hit it almost made me cry that I would ever try to hurt such a really nice guy.

"Lily, I have one question. Do you want to be friends?" he asked. I wasn't expecting that question. But I would really want to be friends.

I nodded. "I'd like that." As I said this his smiled turned into a full blown grin. In the moon light I just realized that he had tears in his eyes too. I reached up with my free hand and wiped away his tears. When I did that I felt him give a little jump. I let out a half laugh. James reached with his free hand and wiped my tears away with his finger tips. It sent a shiver down my spine. Before I realized it we were at Dumbledore's office.

"Um….Do you know the password?" I asked James.

"Fizzing Whizbees." He said to the gargoyle. All of the sudden I was looking at a spiral staircase. We stepped on and were going up in circles. When we reached the door I knocked.

"Come in." we heard Dumbledore say. When we stepped in James led me to a chair across from him and explained the situation to Dumbledore. When he was done he handed him the letter. As he read it James sat on the arm of my chair and kept looking at me. I mean I was about to start crying again but I tried really hard to hold it together.

"Miss Evans, do you have anything to say to this?"

"Professor, I think that Death Eaters killed them to get to me. After that I stopped being Snape's friend he has been hanging out with the wrong crowd and they threatened…." I couldn't bring myself to finish. They had threatened my family but I thought they were bluffing.

"Her family." James finished for me. I was so grateful that he was there.

"Miss Evans, Mr. Potter, why didn't you tell me about the threat?" he questioned. "I heard about it but I didn't know that it was real if I did we could have prevented this from happening. Now where do you want to stay over the summer? I am sorry to say that you can't stay here."

"She could stay with my mom and me." James said all of the sudden. Truth be told I was thinking about that very option but Alice would be very disappointed that I didn't choose her but James under stood how I felt.

"I would like to stay there, Professor, if it isn't too much of a problem." I said before I thought it through. I wasn't really ashamed of my answer but you know, if James knew how I felt which I am not even sure how I feel but he would know that I wanted to stay there with the only person who knew how I felt. Alice doesn't, Mary doesn't, and Lizzie definitely doesn't. All the other Marauder's definitely doesn't know how that I feel, James is the only one and I don't feel too bad about that.

"That isn't too much of a problem. I will send a letter to Mrs. Potter. She probably won't mind you at all. I have heard that she always wanted a daughter." At these words James literally took those to heart. But then he saw Dumbledore's eyes, they were twinkling, and his smile. James just got his first joke played on him and I was literally about to crack up when McGonagall came threw the door.

"Mr. Potter, Miss Evans, what is the meaning of not being in the tower??" she said with a glare that if looks could kill we would be dead by now. I scooted back in my chair and James was literally about to have a cow.

"Minerva, if you don't mind and sit down I will explain everything. Now you two may leave and go and get some rest." He said and we knew we didn't have any choice. As we exited his office James took my hand and led me the shortest route to the common room. When we entered the room all my friends and the Quidditch team James must have gave them a look that said "don't bring up the subject. I was so tired. I said bye to everyone and went up to my bed. When I reached my bed I took a drink of Dreamless Sleep. As soon as my head hit my pillow I was sound asleep.

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